Kohl's Corp. will donate $1.5 million over three years to continue support of a live theater at the Milwaukee County Zoo that uses drama, puppets and music to deliver conservation messages.

The gift from the Menomonee Falls-based retailer to the Zoological Society of Milwaukee County will provide for physical improvements, new puppets and expansion of the show repertoire at the Kohl's Wild Theater. The theater was begun with a previous $1 million donation from Kohl's in 2010. | July 9, 2013»Read Full Blog Post(12)

If the last time you saw Matisyahu was at Summerfest in 2011, you won't recognize him at his return to the Big Gig Saturday.

In December 2011, the once self-proclaimed "Hasidic reggae superstar," who turned 35 Monday, shaved off his signature beard and stopped performing with his traditional suit and yarmulke. | June 30, 2014»Read Full Article(3)

The Hold Steady is based in New York, and frontman Craig Finn grew up in Minnesota.

But Wisconsin also played a pivotal role in shaping the group's sound: two-fifths of the band — lead guitarist Tad Kubler and bassist Galen Polivka — grew up in Wisconsin. So did Ben Perlstein, general manager for the local label Good Land Records, and ex-bassist of Milwaukee band the Benjamins, who joined the Hold Steady's management team this year. | June 30, 2014»Read Full Article(3)

Winona, Minn. — Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of Windsor" doesn't get any respect. Critics grumble that the Falstaff who gets snookered by the wives he hopes to bed is a pale copy of the larger-than-life Falstaff of the Henry plays. The play's farcical elements are disparaged as predictable. The writing — in a script with the most prose of any Shakespeare play — is deemed second rate.

Whatever. After watching the ingenious and moving confection on stage during the opening weekend of Winona's Great River Shakespeare Festival — with Milwaukee Repertory Theater regular Jonathan Gillard Daly playing the fat man — I'm prepared to tell all the naysayers to stuff it. | June 30, 2014»Read Full Article

On Sunday, June 29, Gary Clark Jr. opened for Marcus Amphitheater headliner Outkast at Summerfest. The Grammy-award winner from Austin, Texas, is known for mixing rock 'n' roll and R&B with his versatile guitar work and smooth vocals.

In a review of the concert, Piet Levy — Journal Sentinel music writer — said: "As Clark Jr. sang 'Ain’t nobody else like me around' on 'Ain’t Messin ‘Round,' it wasn’t a boast so much as an indisputable fact." | June 30, 2014»Read Full Blog Post

There seems to be no stopping Iggy Azalea at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 as she celebrates her fifth consecutive week at number one and number two. Watch the video for her big hit single and find out who is trying to unseat her from her reign below. Then, step back in time to see which songs were at number one this week back in 2001, 1991, 1981 and 1971.